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Subject:Re: Creating PDF forms From:David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:14:53 -0500
I looked into this, and came to a different conclusion. From all that
I read, it is still not possible to save form data with Acrobat Reader
7. In fact, the way that Adobe marketed the new version, I *thought*
that it was going to enable saving locally, and was quite disappointed
when it did not.
The following URL describes the tool that the IRS uses to make forms saveable:
If anyone can say that they have actually created a form that has form
rights enabled for Acrobat Reader using Acrobat 7 Professional, I'd
love to be corrected!
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:52:13 +1100, Partridge, Robert
<Robert -dot- Partridge -at- au -dot- unisys -dot- com> wrote:
>
> With the full version of Acrobat 7, you need to save the document enabling the write
> option for forms.... In Reader version 7, you can save data in forms if the option has been
> enabled when the pdf was created.
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